Hamas: Our Rockets Identify As Female; Iron Dome Perpetrates Misogyny

“The Zionist usurper of our lands has always shown particular cruelty to the defenseless.”

Gaza City, April 7 – A spokesman for the Islamist militant group that governs this blockaded Mediterranean territory accused Israel of abusive, violent, sexist behavior in using its missile defense batteries to destroy the organization’s airborne missiles, since those weapons see themselves as wymxn.

Jaswan Bangmi, a representative of the Hamas movement, issued the latest charge against “the Zionist Enemy” in a series of announcements to the population of the Gaza Strip, which struggles under an Israeli anti-armaments blockade and can only import and export non-military goods without restriction. Bangmi disclosed that more than nine tenths of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket arsenal, which they aim at Israeli communities and playgrounds, is female. Thus, he concluded, Israeli interceptions of those projectiles and long-range mortar shells through the Iron Dome defense system constitute acts of misogyny.

“We must admit no surprise at this,” Bangmi declared. “The Zionist usurper of our lands has always shown particular cruelty to the defenseless. The rape by such thugs of our pure virgin missiles, all the more egregious through the phallic interceptor units of the Iron Dome – a mocking reference to female anatomy – further demonstrates the evil we have faced for a hundred years. The Zionists rape the land, and the Palestinian people, especially when their occupation soldiers refuse to rape our actual women – that’s how racist they are.”

Bangmi added that no official figures are available for the number or proportion of bullets that profess or have been assigned a specific gender, but that no matter the hard numbers, Israeli measures to block female – or trans – projectiles from reaching their target destinations also represent sexist repression. IDF use of bullets of any gender, on the other hand, violates the autonomy of those bullets not to be fired at Palestinians, or even at dummy targets in training, which, y the way, probably also identify as female and also, therefore, demonstrate the pervasiveness and depth of Zionist gender-based cruelty.

Gender activists in Gaza maintain a low profile; foreign progressives attribute Palestinian society’s centuries-old homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny to the Zionist occupations that began in 1948 and 1967, but all the more so since Israel withdrew all of its citizens and soldiers from Gaza and parts of Northern Samaria in 2005. Those progressives assured reporters that local gender activists would heartily agree with who bears the blame for the dismal LGBT situation in the territory, if those local activists know what’s good for them and want to stay off both Hamas’s radar and the nearest rooftop.

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